Backburner and Vray

[3dvizual]

Hi.

 

I would like to know something about using backburner with vray. Any guys out there having some good advice.

 

I have been using vray distributed rendering until now, but I would like the option to queue jobs and also send a job to somewhere else besides my main working computer.

 

I have no experience what so ever with backburner, and I would like to hear your advices.?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Chris MacDonald]

It's fairly simple once you've got a backburner server set up - just click connect and submit the job? Could do with you narrowing down any problems you have before I can give you any real help.

[3dvizual]

Hi Chris.

 

Ok. So what you say is that it works flawlessly on the vray engine.?

 

I have just read that backburner is good for animations and the vray dist. render is good for stills. But you don't have the feature to send a way a job with the vray dist. render. So therefore in my eyes it sounds like it is very good for doing both parts.

 

I mean it is nice you can ship away a finished job, and then be working on the next one meanwhile it renders in backburner.

 

It is because I am thinking about investing in a renderpro from Boxx. And I would just like to know all there is to consider before doing the investment.

[salvador]

I have been using BB for stills with VRay for several months now and I never had a problem. All halts on errors always refer to something missing in the scene, eg. a map, a plugin or such. Give it a try and you'll see.

 

Mainly, the flow is: start the manager - start the server - start the monitor - send the job.

 

There are many easy to find tuts on the web for networking details. Sorry I can't say much more, I really never use it over a network, because I don't need to.